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• Jaguar Land Rover Limited issued a recall June 7 for 14,731 of
its model years 2015 – 2016 Land Rover Discovery Sport vehicles sold in the
U.S. due to a problem in the vehicles’ exterior lighting systems. – TheCarConnection.com

1. June 7,
TheCarConnection.com – (National) 2015 – 2016 Land Rover Discovery Sport recalled to
fix exterior lighting. Jaguar Land Rover Limited issued a recall June 7 for
14,731 of its model years 2015 – 2016 Land Rover Discovery Sport vehicles sold
in the U.S. due to a problem in the vehicles’ exterior lighting systems where
the license plate illumination lamp, supplied by Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.,
may fall out, making it difficult for other drivers to identify the vehicle at
night. Source: http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1104348_2015-2016-land-rover-discovery-sport-recalled-to-fix-exterior-lighting

• A chemical spill at Gehl Guernsey Farms in Germantown,
Wisconsin, June 7 caused 5 people to be sent to area hospitals and prompted the
evacuation of hundreds of workers after a contractor inadvertently mixed acid
and sodium chloride in a tank. – WTMJ 4 Milwaukee

9. June 7,
WTMJ 4 Milwaukee – (Wisconsin) 5 injured, hundreds evacuated after chemical
spill at Gehl Foods in Germantown. A chemical spill at Gehl Guernsey Farms
in Germantown, Wisconsin, June 7 caused 5 people to be sent to area hospitals
and prompted the evacuation of hundreds of workers while authorities worked to
clean the spill after a contractor inadvertently mixed acid and sodium chloride
in a tank. Fire crews flushed the building, completed air monitoring checks,
and are working to restore normal operations at the facility. Source: http://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/hundreds-evacuated-after-chemical-spill-at-gehl-foods-plant-in-germantown

• Officials announced June 6 that Genentech Inc. and OSI
Pharmaceuticals LLC will pay $67 million to resolve False Claims Act
allegations after the companies reportedly made misleading statements to health
care providers regarding the effectiveness of Tarceva, a drug used to treat
non-small cell lung cancer. – U.S. Department of Justice

19. June 6,
U.S. Department of Justice – (National) Pharmaceutical companies to pay
$67 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations relating to Tarceva. The
U.S. Department of Justice announced June 6 that Genentech Inc. and OSI Pharmaceuticals
LLC will pay $67 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations after the
companies reportedly made misleading statements between January 2006 and
December 2011 to physicians and other health care providers regarding the
effectiveness of Tarceva, a drug used to treat non-small cell lung cancer.Source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/pharmaceutical-companies-pay-67-million-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations-relating-tarceva

• A potential tornado caused more than 1,100 residents living in a
Jacksonville, Florida, neighborhood to lose power June 6. – WJAX 47
Jacksonville

2. June 6,
U.S. Department of Justice – (Kansas) Kansas tax return preparer pleads
guilty to stealing more than $2 million in government funds. A Kansas tax
return preparer pleaded guilty June 6 to Federal charges after he obtained over
$2 million in fraudulent tax returns from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service
(IRS) by filing false tax returns in the names of his clients without their
knowledge and directing the refunds into bank accounts he controlled. Source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/kansas-tax-return-preparer-pleads-guilty-stealing-more-2-million-government-funds

Information Technology Sector

24. June 8,
SecurityWeek – (International) Critical vulnerabilities patched with release
of Firefox 47. Mozilla released version 47 of its Firefox Web browser which
patched more than a dozen flaws including a heap buffer overflow vulnerability
that can be exploited when parsing Hypertext Markup Language 5 (HTML5)
fragments, several memory safety bugs, a use-after-free flaw, a pointer lock
permission bypass issue, and an out-of-bounds write flaw, among other
vulnerabilities. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/critical-vulnerabilities-patched-release-firefox-47

25. June 7,
Threatpost – (International) Uber pays researcher $10K for login bypass
exploit. Uber Technologies Inc., recently patched a flaw in its Web site
after a security researcher found a hacker could bypass the OneLogin system
used for employee authentication and potentially compromise its internal
network hosted on Atlassian’s Confluence collaboration software. In addition,
the security researcher stated that the flaw could be exploited to compromise a
server that uses WordPress plugins. Source: https://threatpost.com/uber-pays-researcher-10k-for-login-bypass-exploit/118516/

26. June 7,
SecurityWeek – (International) Critical vulnerabilities patched in Android
Mediaserver, Qualcomm drivers. Google released security updates for its Android
operating system (OS) which patched a total of 40 vulnerabilities in the
platform including 15 security vulnerabilities in the Mediaserver component, 16
flaws in the Qualcomm drivers, and 9 bugs in other components and drivers. Source:
http://www.securityweek.com/critical-vulnerabilities-patched-android-mediaserver-qualcomm-drivers

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U.S. Army Retired Chief Warrant Officer with more than 40 years in information technology and 35 years in information security. Became a Certified Information Systems Security Professional in 1995 and have taught computer security in Asia, Canada and the United States. Wrote a computer security column for 5 years in the 1980s titled "for the Sake Of Security", penname R. E. (Bob) Johnston, which was published in Computer Decisions.
Motto: "When entrusted to process, you are obligated to safeguard"